For more information contact:
Floyd Wood, IBB
Contact Floyd Wood floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu
Delivery of Adult Versus Fetal Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration
Atlanta, GA (October 14, 2009) — Engineered Delivery of Adult Versus Fetal Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration
Alexandra Peister and her collaborators received an NIH program project grant which will support research at Morehouse, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, Emory University, and the University of Queensland in Australia. The grant will be funded for the next two years and will support research at Morehouse at a level of $36,000 per year. Co-Investigator, NIH Challenge Grant (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funded): Engineered Delivery of Adult Versus Fetal Stem Cells for Bone Regeneration in collaboration with Georgia Tech. The grant will be funded September 2009.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.